Bug 485175

Summary: Fedora 11 alpha: firstboot / system-config-display displays waring to complex password
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Masakazu Takahashi <emasaka>
Component: system-config-usersAssignee: Nils Philippsen <nphilipp>
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Description Masakazu Takahashi 2009-02-12 04:19:07 UTC
Description of problem:

When creating a new user, I entered a complex (not simple) password.
But warning message is appeard.
Also, password string is displayed instead of error message.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

- system-config-users-1.2.84-1.fc11
- cracklib-2.8.13-2
- cracklib-python-2.8.13-2


How reproducible:

Every time.


Steps to Reproduce:

* fastboot case
1. Install Fedora 11 alpha with default packages
2. Reboot computer and run fastboot automatically
3. When creating users, enter complex passsword and click
   [Forward] button

* system-config-users case
1. Run system-config-users
2. Click [Add User] button
3. Enter complex passsword and click [OK] button

Actual results:

Message dialog appears, and says "THe chosen password is too 
weak: <password>.  Do you want to use it anyway?"

(<password> is the password string I entered)

See attachment, too.


Expected results:

No messages to be shown.


Additional info:

  I suppose like following:

  In isPasswordOk() in userGroupCheck.py (system-config-users), 
check that cracklib is installed and call cracklib.FascistCheck().
Like following:

    try:
        clerror = cracklib.FascistCheck (str)
    except ValueError, e:
        clerror = e.message

    if clerror:
        # translate error message
        clerror = cracklib_i18n.gettext (clerror)
        rc = messageDialog.show_confirm_dialog (_("The chosen password is too weak: %s. Do you want to use it anyway?") % clerror)

  But, online reference of python crack says:

"First, it always returns the given passwd. If it is found to be weak 
ValueError exception is raised with parameter set to the reason 
returned by cracklib's FascistCheck. "

( http://www.nongnu.org/python-crack/doc/crack-api.html )

  So, password string is set to clerror, step in to if statement, 
and displays password string to message dialog.

(Maybe changed between cracklib-2.8.12 and cracklib-2.8.13?)

Comment 1 Masakazu Takahashi 2009-02-12 05:39:25 UTC
Created attachment 331657 [details]
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Comment 2 Nils Philippsen 2009-02-12 09:01:54 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 484303 ***